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Permissionless blockchain. Anyone may join the network and read from the state stored, and write to the blockchain.
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Permissionless blockchain. Permissionless systems, also called “fully decentralized” systems, like Bitcoin and Ethereum are completely free of trusted authorities. Anyone is free to participate in the consensus process without permission, hence the name “permissionless”. The most widely used permissionless consensus scheme is Proof-of-Work (PoW). There are also other permissionless consensus schemes like Proof-of-Stake (PoS) [3]. For illustration purposes we discuss Proof of Work. PoW combines computationally difficult puzzles and economic incentives to achieve consensus. Thousands of miners contribute to the consensus process by computing hashes and the miner that finds a suitable hash first can propose the next block of the chain. This process does not provide immediate consensus, because sometimes more than one miner can find suitable hashes roughly at the same time, and as a result the chain forks. But thanks to economic incentives that are implemented as block rewards one chain branch eventually becomes longest and all the system participants can safely trust what is recorded on that chain. Because of this eventual consensus mechanism, permissionless consensus schemes like PoW are slow. In Bitcoin, for example, transaction finalization takes up to one hour. The security of PoW systems relies on several trust assumptions. Probably the best-known trust assumption is that the majority of the mining power is not malicious. Otherwise an adversary that controls the majority could launch a 51% attack, where the adversary creates a long fork in the chain, and thus violates chain integrity. Although systems like Bitcoin have thousands of consensus participants (miners), the mining power is concentrated in a small number of large mining pools. Most Bitcoin miners decide to join a pool due to economic incentives that make individual mining non-profitable. According to a recent study [10], a majority of the mining power is controlled by a couple of pools and there have been moments when a single pool (Xxxxx.xx) has controlled the majority of the mining power. Accordingly, although existing permissionless systems like Bitcoin may seem highly decentralized, in some ways such systems provide a low degree of decentralization. Whether it is possible to build a permissionless system that remains highly decentralized is currently an open research question. Despite this centralization due to mining pools, permissionless systems can be viewed as highly resistant to attack because of economic incent...

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